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The Love Of God From A Martyr’s Perspective

June 22, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By JAMES MONTI Towards the end of St. Luke’s Gospel account of the Presentation of the Lord, we encounter the remarkable figure of Anna, a widow and prophetess with a truly exceptional prayer life. Having as a young woman lost her husband just seven years into her marriage, she was to spend somewhere around sixty years praying daily and continually in the Temple, up until the time of the Presentation of Our Lord, when she was eighty-four: “She did not depart from the temple, worshipping with fasting and prayer night and day” (Luke 2:37). What motive could explain such a relentless perseverance in prayer and such a magnetic desire to remain day and night near the Lord in His sanctuary?…Continue Reading

Hitting A Home Run?. . . A Measure Of U.S. Today: Trump Indictment And Drag-Queen Honors

June 21, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN Republican Donald Trump represented considerably less of a threat to the moral future of the United States and world than the cultural decay that continued to expose itself over issues like the glorification of drag queens, even by the Los Angeles Dodgers.But Trump’s indictment on federal charges for allegedly storing and hiding classified documents from his presidency at his Florida mansion still was unprecedented.No former president previously had been indicted like this, and certainly not when he was targeted by the banana-republic Justice Department of the sitting president whose re-election Trump threatened, Democrat Joe Biden.“The Justice Department unveiled a 49-page indictment on Friday [June 9] that indicts Trump on 37 counts for charges related to alleged obstruction…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Humility: The Virtue That Grounds Us In Our Faith

June 20, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON Jr. Over the last couple of weeks, I have been away on a much-needed vacation. In order that I might have time to rest, I’m going to pause our series on the parables until I return. In the meantime, I want to offer this little reflection on the virtue of humility. As we look around the world today, it’s very hard to see the virtue of true humility being exercised. I believe this is the result of a lack of preaching about this beautiful virtue. Each one of us, me included, need to be reminded of the importance this virtue plays in grounding us in our faith.A long time ago, St. Augustine was asked to…Continue Reading

Hate, And Hate Some More

June 19, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEACON MIKE MANNO You would think that groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the Skinheads, Neo-Nazis, and white supremacists organizations could easily be categorized as hate groups. And if you think that way you are probably right.And if you have any doubts about that, there is an organization whose purpose is to identify them. In fact, the organization is so pervasive in its reach that the FBI, the Department of Justice, and newsrooms around the country rely upon it as the definitive word on an entity’s hate status. That group is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and it has built up a good business making hate pay — for itself that is.Now if you go to the SPLC…Continue Reading

Christianity, Conservatism, And Change

June 18, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By DONALD DeMARCO In his book, Principles of Catholic Theology, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Later Pope Benedict XVI), makes the comment that “labeling a person conservative is practically synonymous with social excommunication.” Ratzinger wrote these words in 1982, which means that this problem has been around for some time. “Conservatives” are routinely dismissed as not being in step with the times. Notions of “progress” and “change” in the secular world have a kind of religious aura about them. One who defends what is old, and presumably static, is not to be taken seriously. He is a sort of social outcast. By contrast, the “liberal,” who embraces “progress” and “change” is the one who will lead us into a world where peace…Continue Reading

Prelates, Pride, And Perdition

June 17, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By CHRISTOPHER MANION This past March, Calvin Robinson, a Deacon of the Free Church of England, was invited to participate in a debate at the Oxford Union. The motion, “This House Supports Same-Sex Marriage in The Church,” was defended by Charles Gorick, Bishop of Dudley, and two other Anglican prelates.Robinson drew on Aquinas and the Church Fathers in his argument in defense of the family. “We are up against the authorities (viz. Luke 12:11) — three bishops from the Established Church,” he said. “That means either I am wrong — and Christians have been teaching incorrectly on marriage for 2,000 years — or we have Church leaders attempting to drag the Church into apostasy.”“Do not lead people astray,” he admonished…Continue Reading

Earth To All U.S. Bishops

June 16, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By TOM TAKASH Recent surveys centering on the Eucharist seem to confirm what faithful Catholics in the pews have suspected for a long time. Many, if not a majority of U.S. Catholics who still attend Mass, appear to have lost their respect, as well as their belief in the Real Presence of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. While most attendees at Mass seem to enjoy waving to each other during “The Sign of Peace,” even walking over to nearby friends for a hug, not as many seem equally involved in showing reverence for the Eucharistic Celebration itself. But they do enjoy superficial signs of love by smiling at their neighbors in the pew and singing nice…Continue Reading

Remembering Tiananmen

June 15, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Thirty-four years ago this week, I heard a knock on my office door in the Senate Hart Building. Although my assignment addressed issues in other parts of the world, my colleague Bill, an expert on Communist China who had the office next to mine, was out sick for the week. So the Foreign Relations Committee staff sent our surprise visitor from China to talk to me.He was a young man, perhaps in his early 30s, quite dignified and very polite. The first five minutes of our conversation were rather slow-going, until my musical ear finally sorted out his accent. With that accomplished, I was simply blown away by the fellow’s erudition and truly brilliant command of the…Continue Reading

Around The Globe . . . Political Races Have Resemblances Even While U.S. Heads Into 2024 Vote

June 14, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The major Madrid daily newspaper El Pais posted an article on continuing political troubles across the ocean in Mexico headlined, “The PRI’s boundless agony,” using the initials of the political party that ruled Mexico for most of the twentieth century, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, although it finally lost the presidency to a competing conservative party, the PAN, in 2000.The subheadline on El Pais’ article posted on June 4 elaborated that the PRI was “Divided, cornered and with less power than ever, Mexico’s historic party is barely standing….”I sent the article to an Arizona political consultant I know, Reymundo Torres, without expecting him to comment on it, but Torres replied that it showed more of the…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light . . . “My House Will Be Called A House Of Prayer”

June 13, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON Jr. As we continue the journey with Jesus and the disciples during His public ministry, we must remind ourselves that the parables were used by Jesus as a way to clarify abstract or difficult concepts regarding the Kingdom of God. Of particular interest is that the parables were often Jesus’ way of revealing a lot about what was going on in the listeners’ heart. This was also how He spoke about troubling or difficult topics related to the Kingdom of God.This week we will look at a parable that was hard for the people to hear. The Parable of the Tenants, which appears in all three of the Synoptic Gospels, is the kind of parable…Continue Reading

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